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REGISTRY-CERTIFICATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2li, i909.

Application filed August 23, 1906. Serial No. 331,683.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, Lno ISE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registry-Certificates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to registry certificates having particular reference to identification blanks used in connection with advertising mediums, and has as its object the providing of a means whereby a prospective purchaser of an advertised article may refer to any special article or number of articles designated in an advertising column or on an advertising sheet of a newspaper, magazine, etc.

Another object of the invention is that when the registry certificate is properly filled out and handed to a clerk or representative of a department store advertising their merchandise in a daily, weekly or monthly circulation of an advertising medium, the said clerk may readily refer to the desired article and to the particular department wherein said article may be found. 4

In the following is described in connection with the accompanying drawing one form of the invention the features thereof being more particularly pointed out hereinafter in the claim.

In the drawing the registry certificate is illustrated as being applied to an advertising sheet of a newspaper.

The device as shown comprises the representation of an advertising sheet 1 having printed thereon a registry certificate blank 2 and a series of advertising spaces 3. Said registry certificate blank 2 has printed around its border thereof a heavy line 4 indicating to a prospective purchaser the lines on which the said blank is to be removed from the advertising sheet 1. Arranged within suitable spaces 5 on said blank 2 are a plurality of marks of identification 6 consisting for example of the capital letters A, B, C, D, etc., comprising means of referring to the correspondingly identified different departments in a departmental improvements in store and disclosing to a customer, clerk or employee of lsaid departmental store the location of a specified advertised article.

Spaces 3 have printed therein marks of identification 7 indicated for example on the drawing as class A, class D, class F, class G, class J, etc., corresponding with the marks of identification or registry blank 2 and identifying or locating the various departments where the articles advertised are for sale.

Registry certificate blank 2 has indicated thereon blank spaces for the purchasers name, address, special registry number and directions to be followed. The registry cer tificate blank 2 has also printed in its upper right and left-hand corners serial and date indicating means 10, comprising means of indicating to the advertiser the date of the advertisement. i

The use and adaptability of the invention is as follows. A person glancing over an advertising column or sheet and desiring to purchase any one or number of the advertised articles indicated thereon which for instance may be sold to the holder of a certificate at a special price has merely to cut the registry certificate from the paper, properly lill in the blank spaces with his or her name and address and check olf the desired articles by marking the corresponding identifying marks on the border of the registry certificate. Then upon presentation to a clerk or employee of the advertising departmental store the customer may be readily identified as entitled to participate in that special sale and directed to the department in which the article advertised may be found.

Another object of the invention is that the advertiser may keep on le the registry certificates which will comprise a list of their customers with their addresses.

It is obvious that the device as herein described may be widely varied withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is A device of the character described including an advertising sheet, a plurality of advertisements, a reference character on each of said advertis'einenis, a certificatie associ ,tcstiln'oni- Wheieoff I hgwfrlieiieunid ated therewith hai/ing' s'itably indicated Signed my naine iii the presence of tive subi thereon blank spaces for a name and address scrlbing Witnesses.

and a plurality of reference chaivzicteis, the LEO VVSE. reference character on each of said adveliVlzneslses: tisements heilig identical With one 'of `Said ROBERT W. ASHLEY,

reference characters on said certica'te. SEABURY C. MASTICK. 

